[erlang-questions] Calling (equivalent of) erlang:send_after/3 from a NIF?

[Lukas Larsson]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:15 AM Roger Lipscombe <roger@REDACTED>
wrote:

> On 30 October 2018 at 09:37, Lukas Larsson <lukas@REDACTED> wrote:
> > One of the reasons this would be difficult
> > to implement is because it is currently only possible to create timers on
> > normal schedulers. So that functionality would have to be extended to be
> > useable from dirty schedulers, which is no small task.
>
> I'd be using it from a background thread -- cf enif_send(NULL, ...) --
>  rather than a dirty scheduler, but I imagine the same constraint
> applies?
>

yes.
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